Read the Tech Talk Blogs!

If you didn’t know, the guys on Tech Talk Radio have their own blogs! Andrew’s is McBlog, Dr. Ron has The Surgery, Adam has Seeking Nerdvana, and Lid has Blogwell. And you guessed it, there all worth a read. Feel free to post comments, as chances are, they’ll make it to air!

My Generation

A YouTube video that made it to mainstream media, in Silicon Valley anyway. 
Spread the word!

Talking SEO with Google’s Search Evangelist: Adam Lasnik

Recently I was lucky enough to interview Adam Lasnik, Google’s Search Evangelist, for Tech Talk Radio Australia about the way Google encourages Webmasters to approach search engine optimization; the new buzz word that is making its way around the world. Podcast and Transcript are available on the Tech Talk Web site.
A basic definition of search [...]

Educating the Public about Malware

The other major concern pointed out by Eugene Kaspersky is the need to better educate the public about threats and vulnerabilities surrounding this new digital age. 
Theoretically, this is a great idea; in reality this too, is problematic.
 
Those with the power to educate ordinary folk usually fall into one of two categories; the sensationalists and the [...]

Internet Interpol

Last night, Eugene Kaspersky of Kaspersky Labs told us his dream of Internet Interpol, a regulatory body with global policing/litigating powers. 
The idea brings to mind Professor Jonathan Zittrain’s (Professor of Internet Governance and Regulation at Oxford University) recommendation for a “21st Century International Manhattan Project,” a suggestion that we need a global taskforce to fully [...]

Punctuation Substitution

Ze Frank moderated the 2007 RSA Conference; I could not resist including this little sketch of his. 
Enjoy!

Coolest Google Rumour

Late January, Michael Eisenberg, partner at Benchmark Capital – (and he should know, Benchmark Capital are one of the investors in Second Life) mentioned this on his blog:
 “Google is working on turning Google Earth into a virtual world a la SecondLife”
Google Earth ( a 3d mockup of the planet generated from satellite photo’s) is terrific, [...]

How to Link Bait

The idea of generating traffic to your website seems daunting for many; people often use not too clever ideas, sometimes learning about the Google death penalty as a result.
You don’t want that.  If people can’t find your site, they won’t come to your site; if they don’t come to your site – no surprise – [...]

4 Cool Free Tools for Webmasters

domaintools.com
whois record, domain name, registrar and contact, indexed data, Wikipedia info, SEO
Validator.w3.org
Browsers accept Web pages and try to display them even if they’re not legal HTML. Usually this means that the browser will try to make educated guesses about what you probably meant. The problem is that different browsers (or even different versions of the [...]

The Art of the Blog

A recent study by MRI research and CBS chief research officer David Poltrack, only 8% of Americans read blogs.  This figure is based on a survey of 20,000 people.
Yet here I am telling you to blog.  Huh?
Eight percent of people read blogs on a regular basis. 
Search Engines READ blogs; better, search engines LOVE blogs.
Blogs update [...]